An Iconic MIT Engineering Class

Taught by award-winning professor David Wallace, 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a rigorous capstone class for undergraduates in the Mechanical Engineering program at MIT, bringing together everything students have learned along the way to develop a market-ready product together with a team of classmates.
The final presentation is always a sold-out event, and teams often go on to start a company based on their products, or to sell their technology to another company.
It is one of those iconic classes that those who take it never forget, an example of engineering education at its finest -- and most fun.

[@Listener970]

It looks really cool learning Engineering there. That's the dream of every aspiring engineering student, the autonomy to make things and using the maths, tools and skills to solve them. Not just blind regurgitation and memorization of equations, but it's utilization. MIT is the dream!

[@loo5278]

Iowa State has a class just like this. Except you are doing actual projects for actual companies. You have the chance to work with companies like Boeing, NASA, and Rockwell Collins. It's good for getting experience as early as sophomore year.

[@MrSpectastic]

since when? I never heard of this class (2012 alumni)

[@aries4alexs]

That's really cool! although it would be kind of overkill at MIT because basically all the mechanical engineering students intern at those companies starting freshman year (Boeing, SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, NASA JPL, etc.). Plus it's a capstone class so you have to be a senior to take it. (I took this class last year and loved it)

[@91722854]

all we engineers need to do are to recognise a problem, think of ways to solve it and maintain high morale to think of something new, better yet a new invention to solve the problems!

[@writersbench905]

true ! justin

[@kayaeki]

That's the core of engineering

[@jessicabainbridge-smith9274]

Forgot how much fun this was! Thanks for the reminder!

[@KuldeepKumar-yt4dv]

Your teachers are very articulate.... I appreciate that

[@kayaeki]

Holy fck all we do in India is memorize for 4 years

[@shashwatpandey1371]

Seriously dude, this is depressing

[@akradical1344]

Doesn't matter if it's iIIT or NIT's.

[@atharva302]

Hahaha yash . Kaha se ho bhai ?

[@uniquescience7047]

@@akradical1344 no

[@dawson6196]

Don't you have undergraduate projects in India?

[@mizarstifmeister7298]

This look as vacations compared to my University projects

[@yaboinugnug5066]

@Senuka Abeysinghe MIT engineering is basically the best there is, and Harvard wouldn't be able to touch it in terms of student practical application or engineering class standards (cuz Harvard is known for Humanities, Law, Med, etc and not engineering). I don't think it's the 'Ivy' or not, but rather how large scale a university is willing to go on a project. Remember, this is a class, university projects can span years, so there can be a big difference.

[@mario6279]

how do you catch two toasters on fire wtf

[@Sketch1994]

Were I work the old toaster had a busted thermostat and they had hot wired it directly so you had to smell the temperature going up and pull it out at the right moment, but the tricky part was knowing when to put it back in! This was just next room of a 10000Kg/h natural gas steam generator!

[@XrollhaX]

It seems he could work on a instructions manual of toasters more user friendly.

[@mossm717]

Really shows you how simular MIT is to most universities

[@KevinRustagi]

Way to go!!! This class taught me so much about how to work with others to build something incredible. Pink Team 2009 :) - fond memories Arron Acosta

[@bobburchett8517]

You should be so proud of yourself Kevin!!! I did it the hard way and joined the U.S.Army when I was 17 in 1973. I was raised in a small town in Kentucky and we couldn't afford any College, let alone Community College. But I got very lucky in the Army and I scored very high on the Math test the Army has for early screening. Long story made short, I became a Radar Technician and worked 8 years in the Military at that and when I got out in 1981, I found a career working on Radar on the Civilian side, (The Federal Aviation Administration, where my education started again at the "Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center" in Oklahoma City, Ok. I retired in 2010 and am now a happily retired 66 year old Vietnam Era Veteran, so I spent 38 years of working mostly on Radar. I also worked for the Calibration Labratory at Ft Bliss, Tx. for about 4 or 5 years, now that was an education in measurment accuracy that can make your head explode, but I couldn't have been happier about the career I've had but most importantly the people I've worked with. And never stop learning!!!! I mean just this Month, I took up 3D Printing and already expanded to 2 Printers. LOL Your career will be awesome Kevin, just always remember that Teamwork is ALWAYS the most important thing. Strive to your utmost to always build that!!!!

[@carsoncummings_]

Can't wait to go here!

[@patrickaucoin2344]

it's the exercise, not the result, make it simpler, make it wholesome and make benificial.... to all

[@tronghai55]

Computer mechanical optics engineering is really the future for the USA. Specially in optics sensors applied physics in the world wide automotive microsoftware.

[@comelyboy]

I am missing those days.

[@shubhamsingh3635]

Thank you.

[@newb_embedded040]

5:20 The professor is clean shaved and ready for the program

[@mickhernandez2665]

jesus..these guys are beyond smart.. i would've never choose a life of numbers and engineering.. i would've never make my life difficult...

[@Sora_Nai]

Y not. You do hard things you make your life easy, you do easy things you make your life hard.

[@cristianferreira9428]

Cara eu sou do Brasil , e meu sonho é um dia estudar no MIT .....:)

[@tristanmoller9498]

The way they reflect on their work together makes it seem like they went through difficult times of disagreement and misunderstanding. Like it wasn’t all just rainbows solving problems. If “Choosing the project” will be the hardest task, I can imagine many problems on agreeing on how to solve it

[@CASMINxTHABEAST]

How can I get into a class like that? (ANSWERS) please

[@1415J]

Show this video to teachers in india who believe that utilarian classrooms , uniforms and dictatorship like teaching are important for academic excellence.

[@NomanNoman-vu6cm]

i wish to be there

[@twintek1099]

Any tips on getting in as a Brit?

[@kaelavilo1348]

Geeks! I love it!

[@rajatkubade3235]

I thought it was going to be inside view but it's just another commercial

[@megaraph5551]

4:04 Adidas NMDs for horses

[@arunkumar777]

saw two Indian names Proud Indian are everywhere were we make the better future.....

[@RiteshNEVERUNIFORM]

Don't know if it was an Advert or ShowOff

[@fi2103]

So jelaous! :)

[@megaraph5551]

Adidas NMDs for horses

[@Kunal1255]

MCP101

[@dilipbaidya5612]

Vision is to study electronics and communication engineering there (MIT) unfortunately I couldn't clear jee Advanced ... :'( MIT I believe one of few institute for learning and applying what ones learn in their Class Room ...... I'm loser :(

[@ismailb4334]

yoyo vaidya Go to ETH Zürich, TU Delft or TU Munich.

[@deepayanmandal2216]

I think, the same is the image of all other prestigious foreign universities, MIT is not the only place to hone your skills and talent. If you really wish, you can try for other varsities.

[@mandeepvayeda8029]

So many girls in mechanical class! This cannot be true.

[@kamalkumar7978]

This is not India where girls are mostly found in medical.

[@aries4alexs]

lol this class is about 40% female (and the school of engineering is almost 50% female)

[@neevakumari7543]

It is true

[@primenumberbuster404]

@@kamalkumar7978 also their cherry picking of application to take in more female for marketing.

[@randomdosing7535]

I could have made to this Prestigious institute if I was really self-disciplined. No other excuse is accepted.

[@ethereal9658]

American college admissions is also a huge luck factor. If your admissions officer was having a bad day the time they read your profile, they might've just put you in the reject file so they have less work that day. Also, your place could've been taken by a person who has more money or is a legacy so you never know.

[@kamartaj3010]

I would have made it if i were bot born in India

I want to study at MIT but i don't speak English :(

[@impossiblegamer1]

+Mekatronik Español but how did you write this then? como escribistes esto?

impossiblegamer1 translator

[@Mahmood367]

+Mekatronik Español Then get going? start from now.

Mahmood Emad i'm doing www.edx.org/course/introduction-aerospace-engineering-mitx-16-00x

[@Mahmood367]

Mekatronik Español Dude, Can I have you facebook to get in touch cuz i am more like you and I would like to get in touch with ambitious people.

[@aakashsinghrajput4369]

How how to get into MIT

[@kunalsalvi8382]

Be a non Asian minority lol

[@pidayrocks2235]

@Pluie MIT students are on KZbin lol... we're not freaks.

[@serridgeas]

It's so cute when uni students thing they are engineers

[@user-yw6qi8pr2t]

"engineers" need to learn how to use hand tools lol

[@rcmen231]

MIT is much better then a shitty state school. By far.

[@NopeEhhhh]

Whats my work im doing mba 😂😂

[@miniways6901]

I am comming

[@vinayakmane7569]

Why indian classes are not like this ....

[@deepayanmandal2216]

Because very few students will be interested, here, the majority of the UG students of engineering start thinking of package from the moment they enter the gates of college.

[@oscardowning2897]

so they made an arduino temperature sensor that can go on a horse's leg that is literally a piece of piss (very easy)

[@kautherahmed1579]

shut up

[@oscardowning2897]

why

[@kautherahmed1579]

always that one negative know-it-all

[@primenumberbuster404]

@@kautherahmed1579 he is not wring tho. It is a actually a very project.

[@-vamshikrishna-hc5sm]

put full classes so that poor people can learn

[@supremeleader8796]

No doubt about the student's technical skills, but those ideas are so random, the professor should give them some feedback about those ideas before they start doing it.

[@fadhilmuhammadalfarid2371]

Wow that's a bunch of nerd in pack

[@RamanKumar-ch4id]

It would be much better if instead of making marketable products they work on problems like global warming .

[@kayaeki]

You work on that Mr. but I'm working on it already

[@Welkon1]

Don't all engineering programs have this? Why does MIT think they're special?

[@kamalkumar7978]

'Cuz they are... atleast far far far better than my college.

[@danish5615]

They don't just think , they are special

[@supremeleader8796]

The standards of the course are way higher compared to other programs. Look at their presentations, look at the amount of work they are doing. My uni's capstone is designing an automobile and there is nothing hands on about it. Its all project reports, theoretical calculations and CAD, no real product done. No product that i can bring to market after graduation

[@Mike-tv9rk]

Lol. Scientists are great but they cant do English. Iconic??? Wtaf. Narcissism has no place in science . Except at MiT possibly?

[@aakashsinghrajput4369]

How how to get into MIT

[@NurseNick420]

If you're in HS, get good grades and keep your GPA up. Get good SAT/ACT scores. If you messed up in HS and graduated with a low GPA, you can still have a shot of getting into MIT but you'll have to do some studying at community college first. Don't mess up in community college!